Earlier this week, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 and the .Net Framework 4.6 which includes ASP.NET 5, lots of excitement has been around these releases and we’ve had many customers asking about our upgrade plan for .Net 4.6 and when we will support it. We are very pleased to announce that this evening at 9PM MDT we will roll out the new .net release to all web servers.

We will also take this maintenance period to also upgrade PHP 7 to the latest release. We are very pleased to see the reception of PHP 7 and the number of clients that are already testing it!

We are also looking to improve our SmarterMail system’s AV protection with very powerful AV scanner. At this time however, there are some technical issues with SmarterMail that are being addressed, once the SmarterTools team has resolved the issues we will be providing more information about this new AV technology and its massive improvements.

We are very pleased to announce that PHP 7 is now installed and available for all customers! PHP 7 introduces many new features, performance improvements and full 64-bit support. Please keep in mind though that PHP 7 was just released to beta 1 status about a week ago (07-10-2015), this is not a production supported PHP release and may have many bugs and other stability issues.

We are adopting this new release so that users who rely on PHP for their application development can test their application to aid in future-proofing their code or just testing out new language features and syntax candy. Since this is a beta release, support for 3rd party extensions such as Ioncube, Zend Guard and Phalcon are not available.

Beginning at 9PM MDT (3AM GMT) on 7/17 we will be performing thorough maintenance and standard cleanup on our Windows Web and SQL services. The following maintenance activities will be executed on our servers over the weekend…